21 Sept 2024 – Speech at the 10th World Peace Summit (English) | Auckland, New Zealand | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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Peace and love are essential in our lives.
We are not this body, we are souls, we are all eternal servants of God.
Sloka: nāhaṁ vipro na ca nara-patir nāpi vaiśyo na śūdro nāhaṁ varṇī na ca gṛha-patir no vanastho yatir vā kintu prodyan-nikhila paramānanda pūrnāmṛtābdher gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dā sa dāsānudāsaḥ “I am not a brāhmaṇa, a kṣatriya, vaiśya or a śūdra. Neither am I a brahmacārī, a householder, a vānaprastha or a sannyāsī. I identify Myself only as the servant of the servant of the servant of the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the maintainer of the gopīs. He is like an ocean of nectar, and the cause of universal transcendental bliss. He exists perpetually full of effulgence” (CC Madhya-lila 13.80).
